noun
medium-sized greyish to yellow seal with bristles each side of muzzle; of the Arctic Ocean
• Hypernyms: ↑earless seal, ↑true seal, ↑hair seal
• Member Holonyms: ↑Erignathus, ↑genus Erignathus
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noun : a large grayish or yellowish arctic seal (Erignathus barbatus) having a tuft of flattened bristles on each side of the muzzle
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a large gray-to-golden seal, Erignathus barbatus, inhabiting the Arctic Ocean and adjacent waters, having square foreflippers and a thick mustache of long bristles on each side of the muzzle.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.